GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1526, 7 August 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

THE PASSPORT AFFAIR.

By telegraph., Prosn Aso’n, Copyright LONDON, August 4. Brailsford and .McCulloch have been lined £IOO each in connection with their action in securing a passport for a Russian, revolutionist. MILLIONAIRE/S ESTATE.

LONDON, August 4. The estate of the late Sir Robert •Jardlne, senior partner of M'athesion and Company, merchant®, has. been valued at two million pounds storin'A

.. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE, August 5. I The Encouragement to Manufactuiors’ Bill, better known as the Iroi I Bounty Bill, has been introduced inIto the Federal HldYisc. it is SooiaI listic in its incidence. ’ I The Wireless Telegraphy- Bill lias reached the Committee Stage in the Senate. It provides a penalty of £SOO. or five years’ imprisonment, for setting up unauthorised wireless ' telegraph stations. ■The Postmaster-General states the approximate loss by reducing the postage to England to twopence would he £BOOO per annum. A cable published by the London Daily Chronicle two days before Mr, Deakin delivered his famous Ballarat speech, forecasted that Mr Deakin would announce his intention to unite the Liberal - Protectionists and end the coalition. BRISBANE, August 5. A fatal case or plague occurred at Townsville.